Wednesday, 11 March 2009

click to enlarge.I am surprised at H Plus reluctance to release interesting finishes.....I guess this is agap in the market that Velocity will fill with the B43 being released soon.

In the mean time, I took it upon myself to re finish some H Plus rims.....Black w/rainbow metal flake, Silver metallic w/clear raspberry over the top, anda polished rim, basically an un-anodized H Plus, on loan from Ocean Cycle Factory forthis photo.

Monday, 23 February 2009

This is a very unusual combination, that was put together at Ocean Cycle Factory/NJS Supermarket last week...Takamatsu Kenji fork, long, straight with no rake. Nagasawa lugs, hand made by an NJS framebuilder. It is very very twitchy and odd to ride, but allows super tight turns and barspinning a 700c front wheel.When combined with the rare Nitto Zero Stem, the bar can spin very freely, with no centrifugal 'wobble'....it is very strange to ride, but is working quite well for this customer!

Tuesday, 17 February 2009

Having never owned an alumi track bike in the past, I thought I would try one of these out for a while. Thanks Igor in SF, for shipping the frame to me! Densetsu. You can buy most of the parts new from NJS Supermarket.....not the frame though.

A new era of mamacharis has arrived.I am not sure why we built this thing up....but it is very fun to ride!Saddle is new Gran Compe brooks style, fixed gear, front brake, custompaint, basket:) and disk.

Monday, 17 November 2008

An exhibition of photos from NYCs messenger culture.Also a street party and trick demo out the front of Ocean Cycle Factory/NJS Supermarket HQ!1.Tossing the camera man around..2.Freestyle session inside the Nth Face Osaka store.3.FedUp's EmJay-San working on his skill set.4.Sayaka - I know a lot of my customers know her already!5.Unable to decide whether to ride his Nakagawa, or Nagasawa...6.Front of Ocean/NJS Supermarket, and Nth Face store.7.Osakas naked messenger, Miwa Kun.8.Robs Ocean track bike, now for sale at njssupermarket.net

This is one of the hardest to find frames, as far as NJS Keirin approved goes. Others that are veryrare even in Japan, are Venus, Civras, King Speed, Ohtaki, Shimazaki and Yanagisawa.Everest are best known for their Randonneurs, which are very sought after in Japan, but the Everest piste frames also fetch big money. This is my friend Miya Sans... Kalavinka's Tanabe San did his training at Everest before establishing Kalavinka in Tokyo.

Monday, 29 September 2008

I think Sugino was not very keen to have the photos of this cog on the net yet, so to keep everyonehappy I have taken them down. Sorry! Hopefully they will be released soon....Not sure if these are out yet, Sugino rep told me it was a prototype coming out later this year.You get 3 cogs, 16/17/18 with the set, and there is no need for a chain whip, just a shimano road bb tool, which does the lockring too.To change cogs, you just take the lockring off, and the tooth section of the cog comes off laterally.I threw this one on my 3Rensho, along with.....Black suede 8P kashimax, padded version.White candyXsupermarket njs stem and b201 nitto bar.Dura Ace octalink 165 cranks, D/A NJS sealed bb.Dura Ace sealed bearing NJS headset.

Thursday, 11 September 2008

Wednesday, 10 September 2008

Very old Nagasawa frame with unusually ugly 'N' marks on the fork shoulders, unlike the typeface I recently posted on njssupermarket.netThis is a average 110 ended 510mm frame, and is going to fetch a fortune for the seller in Japan.Very unique.Next is a rough shot of a Sugino panto Nagasawa ring.

Friday, 5 September 2008

Continuing my unhealthy obsession with Araya Super Aero rims, here is a nice rare yellow powdercoated 16 hole tubular, with blade spokes and hologram stickers....maybe it was custom made to fit in with a race teams colors?

Saturday, 23 August 2008

This is my friend Kato's Kalavinka. He paid a nail sculpture artist toencrust the lugs and logos with plastic diamonds. Crazy. I love it personally,although it is not one for the matte black w/stickers crowd.Titanium campa arrow head rims, 08 campa record hubs, campa record cranks/ring,pedals.